Victoria and I had the amazing good fortune of meeting and spending time with Laura and Bianca when we were here in Paducah during our first trip... Laura is a real estate agent that showed us a bucket load of properties in two days with all of the crawling around under houses and into attics that I do; Bianca is her assistant who magically produced the full disclosure forms for almost all the properties...
Victoria, the the manner that she has of asking people the most intimate and direct questions and have them answer her, asked about their personal relationship and, as the conversation took it's inevitable turn toward whats-it-like-here-in-Paducah, we found out that they were going to be married in June!
Somehow, (Somehow! Victoria's charm is how!), we were included on the guest list and received an invitation to this wedding... We made a traditional gift of bread, baked with shaved dark chocolate and toasted pecans inside, so that they could begin their new life in the 'breaking of bread' and nourishing each other...Xan wrapped our gift of 'the conversation' goblets stunningly
taping to the top a great fortune that we'd found at the end of a dinner with Gretchen...The wedding started with a gathering on the upstairs plaza of the new Arts Center... this little town did an amazing thing with this building! We were under a tent but looking east over the Ohio river and Illinois about a mile away... beautiful sky, slanting light...
The ceremony was opened with a sage smoke purification and some drumming, followed by a chant to gather the energy of the assembled (that's us) and bring it forward to create a space of honor and sanctity for the wedding party...Please remember that we are telling a story that occurs in Western Kentucky!
The wedding itself was simple and joyous with the families of both espoused in from distant places... here are some photos of the reception...
Gretchen and Xan
The room, done in an asian theme, with this chandelier that was made by sewing thread through the centers of white rose petals!!!
Along with all of the other things that Laura and Bianca did, they grew these flowers and made this hanging themselves...
the cake... the couple...
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I'm so glad that you posted the pictures of the wedding! When you told that there was an Asian theme I kept thinking about the rose petal chandelier that Bianca had told me she was making. I thought that maybe they had bagged that idea.
But not our Bianca!
It looks so beautiful!
I gotta go email them....
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